Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

On the same subject, thousands of Irish people demonstrated in Washington DC yesterday, and their illegal status is the cause of massive trauma in their lives because of the uncertainty of their awful situation. I ask the Tánaiste if the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs will bring any fresh proposals to Washington DC in order to have a right for tens of thousands of our people in difficult circumstances to remain and make their lives in the United States, where they have been living for many years.

Considering we are trying to look after our own diaspora, with regard to the relatively few here from the diaspora of other countries——

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